First, intellegent design does not contradict evolution. Intellegent design does not support evolution.
Intelligent Design does qualify evolution, setting it more analogous to the evolution of internal combustion (or contemporary art, or the English language, or...).
To provide contrast in the previous sentence, I'm searching for an analogy to fit the random process described by modern Evolution, but I can see none. Where else does a system grow more ordered of it's own power and volition? This is what frustrates me, what did frustrate me when I tried desperately to reject the idea of Higher Intelligence implied by Intelligent Design.
When warming and dimming are said to cancel, this only be true on average. Warming and dimming are both caused by pollutants, but concentrations for the two will vary from spot to spot. Why is this pertinent? If two adjacent locations are dimmed and/or warmed differently, the resulting temperature differential could result in storms.
One source of dimming that NASA is already monitoring is contrails. See http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/GLOBE/
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First, intellegent design does not contradict evolution. Intellegent design does not support evolution. Intelligent Design does qualify evolution, setting it more analogous to the evolution of internal combustion (or contemporary art, or the English language, or...). To provide contrast in the previous sentence, I'm searching for an analogy to fit the random process described by modern Evolution, but I can see none. Where else does a system grow more ordered of it's own power and volition? This is what frustrates me, what did frustrate me when I tried desperately to reject the idea of Higher Intelligence implied by Intelligent Design.
When warming and dimming are said to cancel, this only be true on average. Warming and dimming are both caused by pollutants, but concentrations for the two will vary from spot to spot. Why is this pertinent? If two adjacent locations are dimmed and/or warmed differently, the resulting temperature differential could result in storms. One source of dimming that NASA is already monitoring is contrails. See http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/GLOBE/